{"id":95248,"date":"2013-07-12T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=95248"},"modified":"2013-07-17T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T20:30:16","slug":"sri-lankan-diplunacy-stray-dogs-pricks-tigresses-and-chogm-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-diplunacy-stray-dogs-pricks-tigresses-and-chogm-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Diplunacy: Stray Dogs, Pricks, Tigresses And CHOGM 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Posts by Groundviews\" href=\"http:\/\/groundviews.org\/author\/groundviews\/\" rel=\"author\">Groundviews<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56010\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-fools-paradise-cricket-provides-the-perfect-distraction-for-latest-regime-clampdown\/bandulajayasekara\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56010\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56010\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-56010\" title=\"BandulaJayasekara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BandulaJayasekara-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BandulaJayasekara-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BandulaJayasekara-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BandulaJayasekara.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bandula Jayasekara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is to our knowledge no governance around the use of social media by Sri Lanka\u2019s foreign service, and Jayasekara\u2019s Twitter account conveniently conflates personal opinion with official positions. On Thursday, 10th July alone, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bandula+Jayasekara&amp;x=11&amp;y=2\">Jayasekara<\/a><\/span> went after and included in his abominable invective journalists Callum Macrae,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355288574779854848\">Frances Harrison<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355462358761607168\" target=\"_blank\">UK MP Alistair Burt<\/a><\/span>, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355420580507418627\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a><\/span>, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355283201071128576\" target=\"_blank\">Editor of the Colombo Telegraph website<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Senior TNA MP\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355252998047399936\" target=\"_blank\">R. Sampanthan<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jayasekara\u2019s tweets and retweets over the course of Thursday alone featured the following language and sentiments,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355288574779854848\" target=\"_blank\">White tigress<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(referring to Frances Harrison)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABRFOTO\/status\/355326526939602944\">A bloody prick<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(referring to photographer and blogger Asanka Ratnayake, resident in Australia)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355248496921673728\" target=\"_blank\">Stray dogs<\/a>\u00a0(referring to Callum MacRae, though Jayasekara couched it as something he had read on the\u00a0<em>Derana<\/em>\u00a0website)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cl.ly\/image\/3G333J0X3Q1h\" target=\"_blank\">Racist scum<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(a retweet, originally by @sittingnut and against Callum MacRae)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355285986890092547\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mercenary &amp; \u201cmember of the rump<\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(referring to Callum MacRae)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355276118254829568\" target=\"_blank\">Chief Propagandist of LTTE rump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(referring to Callum MacRae)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355274575447195648\" target=\"_blank\">MacRae and his blood money<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(allegation against the Colombo Telegraph website)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355272324666245120\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cmud raking insulting attacking website<\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(referring to Colombo Telegraph)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355269533394677760\" target=\"_blank\">bunch of losers and cowards<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bundeljayse\/status\/355252998047399936\" target=\"_blank\">podiyan<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(referring to TNA MP R. Sampathan)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read the full article in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/groundviews.org\/2013\/07\/12\/sri-lankan-diplunacy-stray-dogs-pricks-tigresses-and-chogm-2013\/\">Groundviews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":56010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Diplunacy: Stray Dogs, Pricks, Tigresses And CHOGM 2013 - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-diplunacy-stray-dogs-pricks-tigresses-and-chogm-2013\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sri Lankan Diplunacy: Stray Dogs, Pricks, Tigresses And CHOGM 2013 - 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